Events
January 22, 2025
On 30 January, the duo Erick Manana and Jenny Fuhr will perform at the Institut français Mainz together with Solofo and Ralah' Trio from Madagascar at the Invitation of the AMA and AoM.
November 5, 2024
WDR Zeitzeichen looks at historical topics from antiquity to the present, Europe and the world, and historical personalities and inventions. African Music Archives (AMA) Director Hauke Dorsch talks about the life and music of this legend of blues inspired guitar music from Mali.
October 21, 2024
A brand new episode of African Presence Special with Globalwize host Jean Trouillet and African Music Archives (AMA) Director Hauke Dorsch is online. Jean and Hauke are joined by their guest Jürgen Leinhos, who has been organising the ‘Jazz against Apartheid’ concert series for almost 40 years
August 23, 2024
We are excited to present you episode #454 of the Globalwize Radioshow. WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's presents another 'African Presence' special in cooperation with Hauke Dorsch, director of the African Music Archives at the University of Mainz. The new episode focusses on the history of African popular music.
July 4, 2024
We are excited to present you episode #449 of WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's far-reaching broadcasts, another 'African Presence' special in cooperation with Hauke Dorsch, director of the African Music Archives at the University of Mainz. The show offers an introduction to the music of Tanzania by special guest, Prof. Dr. Imani Sanga.
July 4, 2024
Show #447 of WeltBeat host and selector Jean Trouillet's far-reaching Globalwize format happens to be another 'African Presence' special broadcast. Recorded in the Bali Bistro in February 2024, this edition of the Globalwize Radioshow features the African Music Archives' (AMA) latest 'Artist in Residence' Eric '1key' Ngangare.
June 6, 2024
Starting on Wednesday, June 26, 5 pm at the AMA Lounge (Central Library), Prof. Martin Stokes from Kings College London presents his three lectures on "Listening beyond landscape".
May 17, 2024
On 5 June 2024, the AMA will host a concert by the Madagascan band "Ralah' Trio", a collaboration resulting from the AoM project "Improvising Culture. Jazz in Madagascar". For the first time in Germany, the Ralah' Trio will present their vision of Madagascar in the (music) world.
January 29, 2024
Globalwize presents another end-of-the-week special on Greedio with the latest 'African Presence' broadcast by Weltbeat host/selector Jean Trouillet and his studio guests Hauke Dorsch (African Music Archive) and Bulgarian-German writer Ilija Trojanow.
December 7, 2023
Seit Beginn des Wintersemesters 2023/24 ist sie da: die AMA-Lounge - direkt neben den neuen Räumlichkeiten in der Universitätsbibliothek. Am 18. Januar 2024 gibt AMA-Direktor Hauke Dorsch hier eine kleine Einführung im Rahmen der UB-"Denkpause": Die Kora - Musikinstrument der Griots Westafrikas.
December 11, 2023
On January 10th 2024, the AMA will host a solo Saz performance by Anatolian folk musician Derya Yıldırım. Following Derya’s performance, Şebnem Altunkaya, PhD candidate at ifeas, and Derya Yıldırım will hold a panel discussion on folk music(s) of Anatolia
November 6, 2023
In der Reihe "Musik und Diskurs" von Vintage Soundsystem unterhalten sich Hauke Dorsch (Archiv für die Musik Afrikas/Universität Mainz) und Jean Trouillet (African Presence/Radio X) mit Günter Gretz über ein bewegtes Leben an der Schnittstelle von kultureller und ästhetischer Vermittlung.